I wonder what would happen if every last social program were repealed. People would be screwed and angry. Would they push for real change then? Are all these programs keeping America just below boiling point?
It took 1 out of every 5 americans being unemployed and starving and dying for like a decade to elect FDR and a cadre of Democrat congresspeople who promised to build a mild welfare state.
We aren't even close to that, so uh, don't expect progress anytime soon. It will take basically an entire generation growing up with a clear (clear as in impossible to disagree with and still be considered mentally sound) failure of Republican policy. It took decades of suffering and failure and maybe even world war and that was before the moronic "But Stalin did horrible things so providing for your neighbor must be a terrible thing because stalin promised that" trading cards were printed.
So yeah, strap in. We aren't all going to make it to the other side.
